Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-04-03
PLENTY OF Lush.
HOW PROHIBITION WORKS IEHAIIg.
Drunksuasss on the Increase in Large Towns
and Cues.
HOW The LAW is NEATLY EYADED
And How Prohibition Does Not Prohibit in
Neal Dcw's Stata

udNo u hkttatluu hNSh1S Wv w
in the States, the radical prohibition
leaders of Maine clamor for more rcpressive
law.
Said Portland gentleman the Other
day: Nothing short Of making the sale Of
liquor q capital offence, with the punish.
ment Of drawing and quartering, would
satisfy General Neal Dow"
The reason why the Legislature con-
stantly adds 10 the penalties Is simply be.
cause Prohibition does not prohibit. And
the radical teetotalers, seeing the groand
slipping out from under their feet even
with the cast iron repressive code already
at their disposal, demand more law.
The legislators grant the boon with
smile and wink They know what il all will
amount TO.
Prohibition does not prohibit in single
Maine city.
The liquor traffic fiourishes in Portland
despite the FACE that there are three special
'liquor deputies" in other words, deputy
sherifis appointed to devote their time to the
suppression of liquor selling and to nothing
else.
1874 pRuNKs.
Last year 679 persons were arrested
here for drunkenness, 6s2 for drunkenness
and disturbance, 81 ~ common drunkards
and IL for assaults committed while
drunk. Two murders weru committed by
intoxicated persons, and young man wss
found dead under circumstances that
made il a certainty that he had been mur-
dered. IL Was discovered that he had
been drinking with some companions the
greater part of the previous night. U
the number arrested, a. abote stated, ly1
were women and 2H minors. or course,
but very few of those actually seen in
toxicated on the streets were arrested.
Drunkenness is on the increase here.
boy of seven years created quite An excite
ment on Exchange street last Sunday. He
was fighting drunk and absolutely refused
TO 20 home
This is a city Of some forty thousand in-
habitants. IL
HAS NOT A SINGLE SALOON
in the ordinary acceptance OF the term. IL
has, however, hundreds of places where
LIQUORS can be obtained that IL, hard
liquor"-and il deserves its name. lntohi-
cation iollows q comparatively slight In
diligence in this hard liquor" generally
of home manufacture.
Beer can be obtained without much
trouble, but il is more liable Ia he seized
Its manufacture has been prohibited In
Maine for many years, and all that II OBJ
tanned must be run in either over the rail-
roads OF bOat. Of course very largs
percentage of all that IL ordered seized and
| DESTROYED. Still, ~ one man Said ycstcr-
day, "If you can get load through u
pays" A "syndcate" Was formed last
summer and three old schooDers bought
These forming what was called the beer
fleet" were run between Boston and various
points Of Maine, and escaped seizure all the
season.
And after the boer has run through"
il IL necesssry TO find
AsAFE LACE OF CosCEALMEST
for il. There art be n hiding place for
the stock" and at least three to watch
for the officers, 10 guard the door, admit
j ting none bat the favored and safe
class, and 10 deal IL out. Elaborate
traps" are constructed for the saie-keep-
ing Of liquors and fN the destruction Of
the stock il officers are reported at hand.
All this in Portland-Ncal Dow's home
where the law IL In some degree en-
forced.
How il it elsewherep The Rev. J.. y.
Stack pole, Of Bath, recently gave some sta
tistics of the liquor traffic Of his city. bath
has n population Of 5000. last year
thirty.three United States licenses were
taken out. There are fly shops nj least,
Mr.. Stackpole says they average u night
or 81 ,s25 per year for each shop, OF total
Of $50, 900 But he intimates that the total
liquor hill for the city every year u $iso,-
O0O. A contrast 10 this bill for liquors,
Mr.. Stackpcle gives some other figures:
Liquor bill every year, sisO,OO school
bill, Sl8, 900; bill for the support of all the
churches, 81, 900.
Take Belfast for another example.
Speaking Of the recent municipal cleo
ton Belfrt paper said
| "Tbe
TAxPAYERs wERE ABLY ASSISTED by THE
RUN sHoPs
Saturday their beelers distributed tickets
bearing the words good for ten cents,
which were redeemable in lignor nj any oI
the taxpayer rum shops. All the rum
shops were wide open Sunday aud far into
the night, and many disgsnetul scenes
were witnessed on the streets. Mothers
went out in search OF and brought boka.
drunken sous. Men were made drunk and
kept hived up in office, or kept In rum
shops until the polls were open, and then
voted. All day the saloons were busy,
and put In good work for their side, bot
many taxpayers. when they saw the rum
element and certain church people at work
hand In hand. left that side 10 disgust and
voted In oppo dtiop."
Very little attempt has been made TO
enforce the Prohibitory law In belfast.
Bangor
SELLS Rum As YgEEIY AZ ~ THERE wEKE
| 40 PRoBIBITuKY Law.
Every hotel bas an open bar, every
street in the business portion Of the city
has the same, and the more important the
street the finer are the barrooms and sur
roupdings. The main street las eight or
ten; Broad, Exchange, Central Ham
| mond. Harlow and other tb0fougbfafes In
the city are filled with thefn, and The
traffic IL as open ~ that Of the grocery of
dry goods stores.
After citing statements like the above IL
seems idle 10 assert that prohibition pro-
hibits.